October 1 (SeeNews) - The assets of Bulgarian commercial banks totalled 69.1 billion levs ($51.4 billion/35.3 billion euro) at the end of August, 0.04% down from a year earlier, central bank data showed.
End-month details follow (in millions of levs):
|
|
Aug'09 |
July'09 |
Aug'08 |
| LOANS AND RECEIVABLES (INCLUDING FINANCIAL LEASES) |
56,563.053 |
56,731.240 |
54,545.690 |
| - Debt instruments |
5.046 |
5.022 |
10.834 |
| - Loans and advances |
56,558.007 |
56,726.218 |
54,534.856 |
| TOTAL ASSETS |
69,115.457 |
69,424.745 |
69,140.494 |
| FINANCIAL LIABILITIES MEASURED AT AMORTISED COST |
59,282.960 |
59,640.875 |
60,930.773 |
| - Total deposits |
56,133.757 |
56,506.140 |
57,326.991 |
| - Deposits from credit institutions |
13,500.588 |
13,973.267 |
14,652.050 |
| - Deposits (other than from credit institutions) |
42,633.169 |
42,532.873 |
42,674.941 |
| TOTAL EQUITY |
9,149.274 |
9,112.262 |
7,307.683 |
| BULGARIAN BANKS' NET PROFIT |
577.234 |
547.284 |
994.034 |
The biggest Bulgarian bank by assets at the end of August was Unicredit Bulbank, a unit of Italian banking group UniCredit. Second came DSK Bank, owned by Hungarian banking group OTP, followed by United Bulgarian Bank, majority-owned by the National Bank of Greece.
Twenty-four domestically-registered banks and five branches of foreign lenders operate in Bulgaria.
(1 euro=1.95583 Bulgarian levs)
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